A council will consider the future of a 'vital' cancelled bus service after being petitioned by commuters. Trent Barton's route 21 service, which ran from Heanor to Nottingham through Stapleford, stopped on October 2, 2022.
More than 250 people signed a petition asking Trent Barton to reconsider the decision and retain the service. Nottinghamshire County Council were presented with the petition at the last Full Council meeting on September 22.
Officials have now said the area previously served by the 21 service would be considered by a bus network review into all council supported services across Nottinghamshire. Richard MacRae, Independent councillor for Stapleford North, who helped set up the petition, said: "It comes off the back of the petition we put in. It would be great for them to be able to do something about it.
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"If there's any possibility of a trial, people need to use it." Mr MacRae previously said the cancellation would have a big impact on Stapleford residents.
"It's the main bus that goes through the Stapleford North ward and it goes all the way from here to Nottingham and then back again. It's the route that people catch to get to the doctors up our end of Stapleford, so it's going to have implications for that," he said.
"It's also the only bus from our end of Stapleford that takes people directly past the Queen's Medical Centre, so it's just cutting off that lifeline to everyone. We've approached CT4N to see if they can take on the route as they kind of took on the 18 when Trent Barton pulled that but they don't have the capacity to do it."
Gary Wood, Head of Highways and Transport at Nottinghamshire County Council, said: “We were presented with a petition to save the route 21 bus service at the last Full Council meeting on September 22.
“A bus network review to look at all council supported services across Nottinghamshire was recently approved by the Cabinet Member for Transport and Environment and this is due to take place over the next few months. The area previously served by the 21 service will be considered by this review.”
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